Determinates of Spread Vitamin D deficiency in both gender with different age in Tripoli and Al-zawia city Libya

Résumé

Vitamin D is essential nutrient component for human health especially cell growth and immune function. it is fat soluble vitamin which is stored in fat tissue Vitamin D has been appreciated for its role in calcium homeostasis and bone health. It is important for bone metabolism and healthy mineral. Therefore, Vitamin D deficiency increased in Libya by showing the symptom of deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency results were collected from different clinics. Method: The study included a number of 987 cases of both sexes, males and females since Dec 2021 till May 2022 were collected, with different age groups, all of whom entered the center. To find out the results the collected data has been statistically analysis by using SPSS3 program to recognize the difference between age and gender. It is associated with the rate of vitamin deficiency. The results: The male between less than 20 years’ till above 80 was not statistically significant because the F value was 1.091 and the (p-value = 0.362 > 0.05). Different age group of the females from less than 20 age till above 80. This shows that the statistically significant difference in Vitamin D level, because the F value was 5.596 and the (p-value = 0.000 < 0.05).. In additional, there is statistically significant difference in Vitamin D between age group less than 20 and age group 80 years old and above. There is no statistically significant difference in Vit D between male and female. This means that there is no effect of gender on Vit D for females (p-value = 0.122 > 0.05). according this result may the number of men was less than the number of females As well women mostly effected to vitamin D deficiency because the number of women were more than men. The conclusion we found that women more impact to vitamin D than men